My best friend of 9 years had his going away party tonight, he’s moving to San Francisco for work and he’s most likely not coming back. He just decided to tell all of us 3 days ago, it hasn’t really sunk in yet.
Me, Special K and our friend from New York, Johnny 2 Tone, […]

I went to my parents house a few weekends ago to visit, it was a standard visit. Some good home cooked food, some poorly home cooked experiments, my dad screaming and yelling about some nonsense and my moms dog running through the house like a jack rabbit as soon as I step through the door. […]

Our focus in the Middle Eastern blogosphere has been the metamorphosis of the region and specifically of our individual nations. We’ve watched in fear as our countries have mutated into a terrible monster and as a result we have rushed to our computers to fight back, to defeat the beast.
The first step to fighting back […]

Memorable quotes overheard by me in the course of the last week or two.
“We need secular leadership throughout the Middle East. You think I want to walk around with religious police looking over my shoulder, every cute girl covering her face like a ninja and no alcohol on the tap for nearly a thousand miles?!”
“American […]

Those who know me personally are aware of my acute addiction to cell phones in fact I’d say I have an unhealthy dependence on the latest and greatest in wireless technology. Seriously I have a problem, I buy a new phone every 3-6 months. Its a very expensive habit I’d probably be better off buying […]

When Salman Rushdie published the Satanic Versus in 1988 he was condemned by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeni and shortly thereafter a fatwa was released by Khomeni demanding the murder of Rushdie for insulting Islam. Following the fatwa countries around the world baned the book, Rushdie went into hiding, a reward was offered for his death […]